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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:56:08 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: named pipes under cygwin
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Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:04:17AM +0200, Danilo Turina wrote:
>>I don't know.
>>For sure you have to update the package containing mkfifo:
>>
>>	$ cygcheck -f `which mkfifo`
>>	fileutils-4.1-2
>>	
>>But, maybe, you also need the latest version of the Cygwin DLL (don't sure).
> 
> 
> mkfifo support in cygwin is only in its preliminary stages.  It is not
> guaranteed to work and probably will only even marginally work in a
> snapshot.

FYI: coreutils doesn't add any CYGWIN specific mkfifo change to the old 
fileutils binary. So you just need an updated cygwin1.dll, but no new 
mkfifo(1) to be able to use new or updated mkfifo(3) features.
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Reini Urban
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